勵志人生！那些戰勝失敗後家喻戶曉的名人
Failure isn’t the end, unless you let it be. Don’t believe me? Here are 5 people who lived through failure before going on to become names known around the world:
失敗不是人生的終結，除非你向它屈服。不相信嗎？下面5個人就曾經歷過失敗，但戰神了它，併成爲了家喻戶曉的名人。
Walt Disney
華特·迪士尼
Disney began his career by being fired by a newspaper for not being creative enough. Later, his Mickey Mouse cartoons were rejected because they were deemed to be “too scary for women.” If that wasn’t enough, "The Three Little Pigs" was also turned down because it only had four characters.
最初，迪士尼之所以決定創立自己的事業，是因爲他被一家報社辭退了——後者認爲他缺乏創意。之後，他創造的米老鼠卡通形象又遭到拒絕，因爲米老鼠被認爲“對女性來說太過恐怖”。更有甚者，他創作的動畫《三隻小豬》也被拒絕了，原因是動畫中只有4個形象。
Thankfully, we have the Disney company today because Walt chose not to listen to any of his critics and press forward towards his dreams.
感謝上蒼，華特決意不聽從那些批評家對他的否定，而是向着夢想銳意前行，我們纔有瞭如今的迪士尼公司。
Michael Jordan
邁克爾·喬丹
As a kid, Jordan loved basketball and knew he wanted to make a career out of it, though no coach would give him a chance because he was short. After using an inside connection to get into a basketball camp from which players for college teams were chosen, Jordan got noticed by a coach—who still chose not to invite him to the team.
喬丹在幼年時代就酷愛籃球，雖然他身材矮小，沒有教練願意培養他，他卻立志要以籃球爲自己的終身事業。 後來，經熟人介紹，喬丹蔘加了一次籃球夏利營，參與這個夏利營的成員有望成爲大學校園中籃球隊的隊員。喬丹引起了一位教練的注意，然而這位教練最終仍然沒有讓喬丹成爲自己的隊員。
Jordan returned home discouraged, but decided to prove the coach wrong. Now a member of the NBA Hall of Fame, just about everyone would agree he succeeded.
喬丹滿心沮喪的回到家裏，但他決定要以行動證明那個教練看錯了自己。如今喬丹已經成爲NBA名人堂的一員，恐怕沒有人會對飛人的成就有所質疑。
Stephen King
史蒂芬·金
King is a best-selling writer whose work has been made into several motion pictures. However, his first work was rejected 30 times, which lead to King throwing it in the trash. Thankfully, his wife made him keep working at it, and—from that inauspicious start—Carrie was born.
身爲一位暢銷書作者，史蒂芬·金有數部作品被翻拍成電影。然而，他的第一部小說卻被拒絕了足足30次，以至於金自己都將它扔進了垃圾桶。還好，他的妻子鼓勵他不放棄——經歷了艱辛的起步階段之後，《魔女嘉莉》誕生了。
Milton Hershey
彌爾頓·好時
The man who blessed us with the sweet milk-chocolate treat we all love wasn’t a hit the first time around. Before launching his own candy business, he had worked for a local candy factory. But when he decided to go out on his own, he failed miserably.
這位先生讓我們能享受到好時牛奶巧克力的甜美滋味，然而他在創業之初並不受歡迎。在他建立自己的糖果事業之前，曾在一家地方糖果工廠打工。可是當他決定要自己創業時，他遭遇了慘敗。
Despite two more failures, he returned to the family farm and perfected the art of making delicious milk-chocolate candy, which we enjoy in the form of Hershey chocolate today.
後來他又遭遇了兩次挫敗，儘管如此，他回到了家族農場，在那裏改良了製作美味牛奶巧克力的工藝，如此纔有了今天我們大愛的好時巧克力。
Theodor Giesel
西奧多·吉塞爾
This author struggled to write a novel that publishing companies would call something other than “pure rubbish” several times—27 to be exact. The man just wouldn’t quit, though.
這位作家竭力想要出版一部小說，這部小說數次被出版社拒之門外，甚至稱其“純粹是垃圾”——確切的說，它被拒絕了27次。儘管如此，這位作家並沒有放棄。
One fateful night, he ran into an old friend who had recently taken over as a children’s literature editor. The friend agreed to publish Giesel’s work. Better known today as Dr. Seuss, Giesel was never again called a failure after his first book struck it big.
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一個改變他命運的夜晚，他遇到了一位老朋友，後者剛任職爲兒童文學編輯。這位友人許諾吉賽爾會出版他的作品。自從他的第一部作品出版之後，再也不會有人稱吉賽爾是失敗者了，如今吉賽爾以“蘇斯博士”的筆名成爲家喻戶曉的作家。
